Looks like we're gonna get some "Royale" cast members for the first in the trilogy of the adaptation to Pullmans Novels, His Dark Materials - The Golden Compass. With Casino veterans, Eva Green and the man himself, Daniel Craig working alongside the likes of Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards who'll play Lyra, and Ian McShane/ A delight it shall be no doubt to see McShane in something a little different from his outstanding portrayal of Al Swearingen in HBO's Deadwood.
His Dark Materials is a dark fantasy which follows a young girl, Lyra. The Golden Compass is about a small girl named Lyra who lives in a world where people's souls are disembodied shape shifting animals. Lyra overhears her father talking about a new particle one day. A particle called dust which has the power to connect universes. However, the church believes it to be original sin and caused by their Daemon's, the souls. The church tries to cut daemons away from children in order to save them. Lyra gets thrust into this world suddenly and feels she must put a stop to it and save her best friend.
Gimme Gimme Gimme
3 comments:
Loved the books.. hoping for good things from this.
A right royal 2 fingers to all the Christians who loved Narnia (which i haven't seen).
Narnia... don't bother... A shrine to mediocrity
Yeah, that's what I thought.. a mediocrity aimed squarely at the Christian middle class... what I love about Pullman is that his atheism is at the heart of all he writes, and makes it all the more intellectually stimulating for it.
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